Sanja Petričić, Ph.D., from Singidunum University (Belgrade, Serbia) will join the Performing Arts Leadership and Management program as Fulbright scholar-in-residence during the spring 2017 semester. Petričić currently serves as associate dean for student affairs and associate professor at the Faculty for Media and Communication at Singidunum University in Belgrade, Serbia. Petričić received her bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Ohio), an Artist Diploma in chamber music from Belgrade Conservatory of Music (Serbia), a master’s degree in collaborative piano from The Juilliard School (New York), and her Ph.D. in art management and media from the University of Arts (Belgrade, Serbia).
Director of Performing Arts Leadership and Management Program and Associate Professor of Arts Management David Edelman, M.F.A., and Director of Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Arts Management Jennifer Green-Flint, D.Prof., presented at the 35th annual conference of the Association of Arts Administration Educators in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 3. They shared their research on recent neurological studies and the relationship to leadership training of performing artists.
Assistant Professor of Dance at Shenandoah University and Assistant Director and dancer for Christopher K. Morgan & Artists (CKM&A), Tiffanie Carson, M.F.A., taught at CKM&A’s fourth annual Professional Summer Intensive program with forty participants from more than fourteen different universities. In June, she participated in Project 4 5 20, a collaborative project between four choreographers (Calen J. Kurka, Chris Hale, Mike Esperanza, Bryn Cohn) and twenty dancers. This one week residency project culminated in three performances at the Salvatore Capezio Theatre at Peridance in New York City. In July, Carson’s 2015 work, “Run Love Run,” was accepted into October’s VelocityDC Dance Festival where the piece—featuring eight current members of the Shenandoah Conservatory Dance Ensemble and two Shenandoah Conservatory dance alumni—is being performed at Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, D.C.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre Sally Anderson, B.A., B.Ed., directed Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” (adapted by R. Rex Stephenson) at the Water Garden in the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley on July 10, 17 and 24.
New research by Coordinator of Music Theory and Associate Professor of Music Keith Salley, Ph.D., is being published in the fall 2016 issue (volume 22.3) of Music Theory Online. Salley’s latest project, “Capturing the Ineffable: Three Transcriptions of a Jazz Solo by Sonny Rollins,” involves two other authors: Dr. René Rusch (University of Michigan) and Dr. Chris Stover (The New School, NYC). This study features three divergent transcriptions of an improvisation by tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, delving into problems of purpose in transcription, and also the vagaries of musical notation itself. The study draws considerably on literature from the domains of jazz studies and ethnomusicology, and is the culmination of work that the three authors first presented in 2011.
Director of Graduate Music Therapy Studies and Associate Professor of Music Therapy Anthony Meadows, Ph.D., presented a paper at the 10th annual European Music Therapy Congress in Vienna Austria from July 5 through 9. The title was “Meaning-Making Processes in Clinical Improvisation: An Arts-informed Qualitative Research Synthesis.” Dr. Meadows also had an article accepted for publication in SAGE Research Methods Health titled, “An Arts-Informed Qualitative Research Synthesis into Clinical Improvisation in Music Therapy: Researcher Reflections,” which was co-authored with Dr. Katherine Wimpenny and is to be published in January 2017.
Associate Professor of Music Education Stephanie Standerfer, Ph.D., attended the thirty-second World Conference of the International Society for Music Education in Glasgow, Scotland in July. She presented a research poster, “National Board Certification as Professional Development for Music Teachers: Multiple Correspondence Analysis of learning from the Process,” as well as in the “Self, Peer, and Shared Assessment Influences on Music Teacher Identity” session. Additionally, she co-presented a symposium, “Mentoring Graduate Student Writers: International Issues and Practices,” with colleagues from four universities in the United States and Germany.
Professor of Trumpet and Conducting Scott Nelson, D.M.A., performed with the Maryland Symphony Brass Quintet and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra at the Garrett Lakes Arts Festival on June 24 and 25 at the Wisp Resort in Deep Creek, Maryland. Nelson adjudicated the American Legion National Concert Band Competition in Cincinnati, Ohio on Aug. 27. On Aug. 25 he presented a masterclass on his book, “Breathing for Musicians ” at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Guitar Candice Mowbray, D.M.A., performed in the legendary Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in June as part of its “Performing the Archives” series. In duet with virtuoso mandolinist, Neil Gladd, she performed rarely heard works including a Baroque suite by Carlo Arrigoni and “Artist’s Vals” by Valentine Abt. (Mr. Gladd briefly taught mandolin at Shenandoah Conservatory.) In July, Mowbray collaborated with composer and Shenandoah alumnus, Richard Zarou ‘03, to record an entire album of his works for flute, cello, guitar and voice. And, the Fairfield Duo (Mowbray and flutist Nora Suggs) once again received a grant from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts to provide high-quality chamber music concerts for residents of senior living facilities. The duo provided musical performances to residents in Bethlehem, Allentown and Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
Director of Composition and Coordinator of New Music Jonathan Newman, M.M., served as one of two composers-in-residence for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra’s (CYSO) 70th anniversary season. The other composer-in-residence is percussionist and drummer for the Chicago-based band Wilco. Newman was commissioned in 2011 by the CYSO to compose “Blow It Up, Start Again,” which is one of Newman’s most often performed pieces today. Read more about his residency here.
Professor of Flute Jonathan Snowden, A.G.S.M., hosted the third annual National Flute Workshop from July 11 through 15 at Shenandoah. Program highlights included one-on-one and group masterclasses with world-renowned flutist Snowden, and a resident pianist for student solo recital night.
Auxiliary Adjunct Associate Professor of Voice (Soprano) Edrie Means Weekly, M.M., presented “Bringing the Song to Life: It’s a Matter of Style” and judged the National Music Theatre Competition at the National Association of Teachers of Singing national Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Professor of Cello Clyde Thomas Shaw, M.M., and Director of Instrumental Chamber Music and Professor of Viola and Chamber Music Doris Lederer, Diploma, Curtis Institute of Music, taught lessons and presented masterclasses at the Qingdao International Masterclass Festival in Qingdao, China from August 1 through 8. The faculty included artists and teachers from China, Russia and the United States. We represented Shenandoah Conservatory and our participation was by invitation of the festival. After the Qingdao festival, Lederer and Shaw traveled to Xi’an, China to participate as artist teachers and performers at the 2016 Silk Road Sound of the Piano, Strings and Voice Music Festival in Xi’an, China, from August 9 through 22. They taught private lessons, coached chamber music, held masterclasses and gave public performances.
On June 1, Director of the Janette Ogg Voice Research Center and Associate Professor of Voice (Baritone) David Meyer, D.M., presented one of five featured papers on the science of the singing voice at the 45th annual Care of the Professional Voice Symposium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This meeting is the preeminent international gathering of voice teachers, researchers, speech language pathologists and laryngologists. Other featured presenters included Dr. Robert Sataloff, Dr. Ron Scherer and Dr. Johnan Sandberg. View his presentation below.
In July, an article by Dr. Meyer and his voice pedagogy doctoral student Leon Neto, “A Joyful Noise: The Vocal Health of Worship Leaders and Contemporary Christian Singers,” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Voice.
Chair of Vocal/Choral Division and Associate Professor of Voice (Tenor) Byron Jones, D.M.A., completed his fifth summer of teaching at Seagle Music Colony in Schroon Lake, New York. Founded in 1915 by operatic baritone Oscar Seagle, the colony is one of the leading—and the oldest—training programs in the United States for aspiring young opera singers. As a member of the performance faculty, Jones’ duties included giving weekly voice lessons to young artists, participation in daily audition panels and conducting masterclasses. Former students from Seagle Music Colony have gone on to perform with the prominent opera companies including Santa Fe, Des Moines Metro, Glimmerglass, Saratoga, Wolf Trap and Fort Worth.
Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, Chair of the Keyboard Division and Professor of Piano John O’Conor, Mus.D, in April performed with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in Madison, Wisconsin, was a platform speaker at the Music Teachers National Association Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas, gave two masterclasses to the Music Institute of Chicago and completed his teaching assignments at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In May, he spoke to the Washington Adult Music Student Forum, visited Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for an ex-student’s recital, attended a present student’s recital at Winchester Medical Center, performed an “Encores” recital for the supporters of the Piano Society of Shenandoah at the home of Shenandoah Board of Trustees Chair Marjorie Lewis, flew to Ireland for meetings about the Dublin International Piano Competition of which he is artistic director, spent three days in Vicenza, Italy giving masterclasses at the conservatory there and attended a meeting (which he helped organize) at the University of Music in Vienna, Austria. In June, he traveled to Tokyo, Japan for two weeks as visiting professor at at the Showa University of Music; gave the 17th Beethoven Bootcamp piano course over two weeks at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland and went to Adamant, Vermont to conduct an annual week of masterclasses. He traveled to Brescia, Italy in July to offer a week of masterclasses at the Summer Academy. He also spent a week giving masterclasses and performing the Beethoven 3rd Piano Concerto at the annual Summer Course in Perugia, Italy. He finished out the summer by conducting a week of masterclasses in August at Merkin Hall in New York.